From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Curt, WE7U" Subject: Re: tncs and kiss mode Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 13:08:19 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <5.2.1.1.0.20060129225800.0117b6e8@pop.av.eastlink.ca> <1138629532.7628.2.camel@CO> <43DE5851.33E01B71@free.fr> <43DE7B4B.5040509@jnos.org> Reply-To: "Curt Mills, WE7U" Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <43DE7B4B.5040509@jnos.org> Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Bill Vodall WA7NWP Cc: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Bill Vodall WA7NWP wrote: > > Once kissattach has grabbed a serial port, it's apparently not possible > to do the "echo's" or minicom operations to that port without killing > the kissattach. Here's a trick that somebody just tried with Xastir in order to share a serial port with another application: "Running now ok with : tee /dev/ptyt0 /dev/ptyt1 < /dev/ttyS0 > /dev/null & I can have now 2 software : one attached to /dev/ttyt0 and the other one to ttyt1." Interesting trick! I have not done this myself, but suggested it to him originally as something to try. We have instructions in our docs for hooking to a serial port across a network, but he's the first user that wanted more than one app trying to talk to the same serial port. Your mileage may vary. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U "The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!"